Category: 1871

80 U.S. 183 80 U.S. 183 20 L.Ed. 615 13 Wall. 183 STEINBACHv.INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for Maryland. Steinbach sued the Relief Fire Insurance Company on a policy of insurance against fire. The subject insured was described in writing, as follows, in the body of […]

80 U.S. 185 80 U.S. 185 20 L.Ed. 567 13 Wall. 185 PHILIP ET AL.v.NOCK. December Term, 1871 MOTION to dismiss an appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The Judiciary Act of 1789, as is known, gives jurisdiction to this court in ordinary cases only ‘where the matter in dispute exceeds […]

80 U.S. 187 80 U.S. 187 20 L.Ed. 593 13 Wall. 187 HAMPTONv.ROUSE. December Term, 1871 1 THIS was a motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. 2 It appeared from the record that Wade Hampton, Wade Hampton, Jr., and J. M. Howell, were defendants […]

80 U.S. 156 80 U.S. 156 20 L.Ed. 646 13 Wall. 156 PARGOUDv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. Pargoud filed a claim in the court below to recover under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act, the proceeds of certain cotton. This act, as by reference to its provisions, on page […]

80 U.S. 158 80 U.S. 158 20 L.Ed. 490 13 Wall. 158 SEMMESv.HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1871 IN error to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut. Semmes sued the City Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, in the court below, on the 31st of October, 1866, upon a policy of insurance, for a […]

80 U.S. 162 80 U.S. 162 20 L.Ed. 566 13 Wall. 162 REICHEv.SMYTHE, COLLECTOR. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case being thus: The 23d section of the act of March 2d, 1861, chap. 68,1 provides, that ‘The importation of the articles hereinafter mentioned and […]

80 U.S. 14 80 U.S. 14 20 L.Ed. 478 13 Wall. 14 WEBB, TRUSTEE,v.SHARP, MARSHAL. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; the case being this: By the act of Congress, passed February 22d, 1867,1 the right of distress for rent in the District of Columbia was abolished, and […]

80 U.S. 151 80 U.S. 151 20 L.Ed. 565 13 Wall. 151 CARROLLv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: The act of March 12th, 1863, ‘to provide for the collection of abandoned property in insurrectionary districts within the United States,’ enacts that: ‘Any person claiming to have […]

80 U.S. 154 80 U.S. 154 20 L.Ed. 614 13 Wall. 154 ARMSTRONGv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. Mrs. Armstrong filed a claim in the court below for the proceeds of certain cotton under the ‘Abandoned and Captured Property Act,’ the provisions of which are quoted in the preceding case, […]

80 U.S. 104 80 U.S. 104 20 L.Ed. 585 13 Wall. 104 NORWICH COMPANYv.WRIGHT. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; the case being this: On the 3d of March, 1851, Congress passed an act1 as follows the sections in brackets, i. e., 2d and 5th sections, not being […]

80 U.S. 128 80 U.S. 128 20 L.Ed. 519 13 Wall. 128 UNITED STATESv.KLEIN. December Term, 1871 [Syllabus from pages 128-130 intentionally omitted] behalf of the United States, to remand an appeal from the Court of Claims which the government had taken in June, 1869, with a mandate that the same be dismissed for want […]

80 U.S. 1 80 U.S. 1 20 L.Ed. 556 13 Wall. 1 BETHELLv.MATHEWS. December Term, 1871 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana, the case being this: 2 The act of Congress of March 3d, 1865,1 authorizing the Circuit Courts of the United States, on written stipulation of the parties or […]